Short Communication The identity of Sticta damicornis (Ascomycota: Lobariaceae): a presumably widespread taxon is a Caribbean endemic Sticta damicornis (Sw.) Ach., described as Lichen damicornis Sw. (original orthographic variant 'damaecornis' corrected acc. to ICN Art. 60.8, Ex. 20), is one of the most frequently used names for green-algal Sticta species; to a lesser extent, this also applies to the name S. canariensis (Ach.) Bory. Based on published records and occurrence data in public repositories (Fig. 1), both taxa are presumably subcosmopolitan. Sticta canariensis has 2144 occurrence records in GBIF (https://www.gbif.org/species/8491362), most in the Americas and Western Europe but also in southern Africa and the Mascarenes. Notably, most published records refer to Western Europe (including Macaronesia)